Re: [RFC kvm-unit-tests PATCH] lib: Use __ASSEMBLER__ instead of __ASSEMBLY__

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 22/02/2025 02.45, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Convert all non-x86 #ifdefs from __ASSEMBLY__ to __ASSEMBLER__, and remove
> all manual __ASSEMBLY__ #defines.  __ASSEMBLY_ was inherited blindly from
> the Linux kernel, and must be manually defined, e.g. through build rules
> or with the aforementioned explicit #defines in assembly code.
> 
> __ASSEMBLER__ on the other hand is automatically defined by the compiler
> when preprocessing assembly, i.e. doesn't require manually #defines for
> the code to function correctly.
> 
> Ignore x86, as x86 doesn't actually rely on __ASSEMBLY__ at the moment,
> and is undergoing a parallel cleanup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
> 
> Completely untested.  This is essentially a "rage" patch after spending
> way, way too much time trying to understand why I couldn't include some
> __ASSEMBLY__ protected headers in x86 assembly files.

Thanks, applied (after fixing the spot that Andrew mentioned and another one 
that has been merged in between)!

BTW, do you happen to know why the kernel uses __ASSEMBLY__ and not 
__ASSEMBLER__? Just grown historically, or is there a real reason?

  Thomas